A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq. Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people. According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible," or words to that effect, then walked on. Ten minutes later, according to Howards' lawsuit, he and his son were walking back through the same area, when they were approached by Secret Service agent Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr., ... http://www.rockymountainnews.com

An elderly bishop's fight against allowing politicians to run for re-election has sparked the latest angry spat between Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and the country's influential Roman Catholic Church. The battle has dominated headlines in Argentina and proven a headache for the center-left president, who has clashed with church leaders over issues ranging from abortion to his charges that the Catholic hierarchy conspired with the military junta during a 1976-1983 dictatorship. Unlimited re-election ambitions raise hackles in Argentina, where as many as 30,000 people were killed by the dictatorship's crackdown on leftist dissent, known here as the "Dirty War." In this latest fight, Bishop Joaquin Pina, 76, is battling Misiones Gov. Carlos Rovira, who wants election laws changed so that he can seek unlimited re-election...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2537987

Row over a music site stands in the way of Russian membership of a global trade body A RUSSIAN music download website stands in the way of the country’s long-cherished ambition of joining the body that governs world trade, it emerged yesterday. The United States has singled out the site, allofmp3.com, as an obstacle to its support for Russian membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Susan Schwab, the US Trade Representative, wants Russian authorities to close the site, which America regards as one of the world’s largest online repositories of pirated music. But MediaServices, the Moscow company running the service, insisted yesterday that it complied with Russian law on copyright protection and actually helped to prevent piracy. It accused US officials of seeking to protect American online music providers from Russian competition. ...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2392741,00.html

Terry Lloyd, the ITN journalist, was shot dead by American troops as he was taken to hospital after being injured in crossfire during the Iraq war, an inquest heard today. In the most detailed account yet of the "friendly-fire" incident, the inquest into the war correspondent’s death heard that an SAS soldier saw Mr Lloyd become trapped in a gunfight between a US tank and an Iraqi armed pick-up truck. The father of two’s vehicle was seen bursting into flames before crashing at the side of the road in Basra, southern Iraq. Mr Lloyd, 50, was helped into a minibus but as it sped towards a hospital, American soldiers riddled it with bullets shooting Mr Lloyd in the head, it was claimed. Revealing for the first time that the SAS regiment witnessed the events leading up to the journalist’s killing, the solider said that he saw Mr Lloyd and his Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman’s vehicle explode in flames on March 22, 2003...http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2392079,00.html

Canada will formally protest to the United States over the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria by U.S. agents after he was accused of being connected with terrorist activity, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told President Bush on Friday. Software engineer Maher Arar was arrested in New York in September 2002 and deported to Syria, where he says he was repeatedly tortured. He was released a year later. Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay was due to send a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday to protest U.S. officials' actions in the case, as recommended after a high-level inquiry, Harper said. "What I would like to see is, obviously, the United States government come clean with its version of events, to acknowledge, I would hope, the deficiencies and the inappropriate conduct that occurred in this case, particularly vis a vis interrelations with the Canadian government," he told reporters...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2537983

Students at Gallaudet University remained barricaded inside one of the main campus buildings Friday, protesting the school's presidential selection and what students call a pattern of prejudice at the largely deaf institution.Students said campus police on Friday morning forced their way into the Hall Memorial Building, shoving and elbowing students and pepper spraying some.The school denied use of pepper spray and said authorities needed to rush in because of a bomb threat, though there turned out to be no bomb.Ryan Commerson, a student and leader of the protests, said the campus police apparently did not know sign language and could not communicate their concerns to students as they pushed their way in....http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/06/college.protesters/index.html?section=cnn_us